The blues captured the musical imaginations of many a young white pop star on either side of the Atlantic back in the ’60s, but somehow the British bluesers came out with the higher profile, while those stateside — many of them associated with Paul Butterfield or the Siegel-Schwall Band —…
Every generation needs an anthem, and for the Beat Generation, it was “Howl.” Spewed onto paper in the mid-’50s by a young Allen Ginsberg, the poetic rant began with “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness” and foresaw much of what’s come since, from the rise…
The heat is on, gardeners, so it’s time to pull on your muddy gloves and dig in before it’s too arid to plant. In preparation, you’ll be able to find all the last-minute bedding plants, perennials and veggie starts you need, along with more advice than you can possibly use,…
The two-bit towns of Colorado’s eastern plains — Arriba, Hugo, Limon, Flagler, Burlington, Cheyenne Wells and all the other dusty, agricultural burgs that time forgot on the way to Kansas — don’t seem to have much to offer, on the surface. Citified folk whiz past on the interstate, never bothering…
The Munny has no face, though it does boast some innate character. It’s seven inches tall, comes in black, white or glow-in-the-dark, with or without accessories, and in the small world of limited-edition vinyl art toys, it’s the ultimate invitation to decorate as you please. Plastic Chapel, a toy nook…
So you’re fair, fat and forty? Your raven locks have all gone gray? Whatever. Once you hit a certain plateau, it all starts to go south, and who cares? You had your bikini-clad day in the sun, and it’s time to simply enjoy yourself — a pastime that just got…
Art lovers in search of a bargain buy would do well to drop by Open Space Gallery, 2914 West 25th Avenue, today for the last day of a benefit sale of art and collectibles hosted by local artist/entrepreneur Mary Mackey, with proceeds going to Mi Casa Resource Center for Women…
“At the moment, I’m installing a giant carrot,” Lyons sculptor John King blurts into his cell phone. He’s helping to raise “Carrot on a Stick?” a sixteen-foot sailcloth veggie by Garima Fairfax, up a telephone pole. “Only in Lyons could you get permission to do this,” he adds. “This is…
North High School theater coach José Mercado loves working with his kids, but he occasionally gives adult actors the benefit of his directing skills. His latest effort, Beyond the Border, is a labor of love that pushed him to piece together an exploration of illegal immigration and cultural identity for…
Remember when flea markets were as scarce as, well, fleas, around here? Now you can hardly step outside your house on a summer weekend without stumbling into one. But when the trendsetting Ballpark Market opened years ago at the intersection of 22nd and Larimer streets, it brought a whole new…
Paul Weiss knows a thing or two about community-boosting. The mastermind behind the City Park Festival of the Arts (canceled this year due to a timing conflict, but in the works again for next year) and co-director of the popular Uptown Sampler restaurant crawl, Weiss likes to create the kind…
Somewhere in the world, there’s a place where neighborhood kids can go after school to create art and receive skills training as well as participate in open discussions about such looming youth issues as drugs and alcohol, a place that’s open every day during the week, is free and welcomes…
The Denver Center Theatre is topping off its season with an all-out ode to the hat — or, more precisely, to a voluminous collection of those ornately bedecked scalp-schooners that are so integral to the African-American church-lady experience. Crowns, an adaptation by Regina Taylor from the book by Michael Cunningham…
Word of mouth, grassroots cooperation and a triple-espresso burst of communal energy are all it’s taken to blast Denver’s Scattered Arts Collective into the stratosphere. What began last summer as a brainstorm between a musician and a poet has blossomed into a series of multi-disciplinary art parties so popular that…
I am the enemy you killed, my friend. I knew you in this dark; for so you frowned Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed. I parried; but my hands were loath and cold. Let us sleep now… — Wilfred Owen Not even the dead will sleep tonight at…
No one’s done more for the green pepper than the great photographer Edward Weston, whose shapely black-and-white capsicums sport more curves than his nudes when placed side by side for scrutiny. Ditto for the shells and nearly everything else the man ever shot: Weston was a master of light, shadow…
Jake Adam York read at least 200 books of poetry last year. Of those, Catherine Wing’s slim debut volume, Enter Visible, was one of the most intriguing. “It was the funniest book I’ve read in a long time,” says York, a University of Colorado at Denver prof and poet. “It’s…
As if it weren’t enough to be a leading scholar of antique Asian textiles, Londoner Linda Wrigglesworth is also a designer whose elegantly tailored art-to-wear fashions — inspired by Chinese imperial costumery of the Qing Dynasty — are nothing short of gorgeous. Wrigglesworth and fellow expert Gary Dickinson will be…
Although early April weather conditions can be iffy, it’s worth braving any showers to hit First Friday. There’s a lot happening this month, but here are a few of the don’t-miss highlights: In the RiNo art district, eight artists working in eight diverse media are banding together at Orange Cat…
The commercial art of Alan Forbes is like the airbrushed graphics on the cabs of semis: flamed and emblazoned with images of fast poker hands and faster women. The Black Crowes’ black crow was his first big contribution to the lowbrow art world, and he has since created imagery for…
Like many a young independent filmmaker trying to get a foot in the door, Eric Ayotte felt disenfranchised. It’s not an easy life, he learned, and you just have to make your own way through the muck. But he took his future into his own hands and started the ragtag…
Jeff Sorenson loves to grow things, and his sister, Kristy, loves to sell growing things. She also has a knack for building a rustic trellis out of fresh-cut willow boughs or putting together a miniature fairy garden using the delicate ground covers and diminutive topiary trees her brother nurtures to…
